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Maximizing Backup Security:  Veeam-Wazuh Integration Syslog I previously wrote a blog post on custom Integration for Wazuh & Veeam. This allowed any rules that were triggered or matched in Wazuh from multiple sources , to initiate a call to Veeam via the incident API this would initiate a Quick backup to preserve data in a on-going attack & would flag any existing backup images within the time frame as Infected or containing malicious code. Link here :  http://www.mritsurgeon.co.za/2024/01/orchestrating-cybersecurity-resilience.html  In this post here i take it a little bit further and we look at integrating Veeam events via Syslog into Wazuh. In Veeam V12.1 Veeam added syslog integration for SIEM , so that Security professionals or anyone monitoring a SOC can see events around the backup infrastructure. Why is this important: Malicious actors generally target backup infrastructure to ensure organizations have no ability to recover post the rest of their exploit / ki

  Veeam API   with Python as PowerBi Data Source Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool that allows users to visualize data and gain insights from it. While Power BI provides built-in data connectors to various sources, including SQL Server, Oracle, Excel, and others, it also supports using custom connectors to access data from various other sources.

Using Veeam Backup for Office 365 as DataSet for PowerBI using PowerBi Query.  I did a previous post on a self-service Dashboard which is built upon Veeam’s VBO APIs here: http://www.mritsurgeon.co.za/2020/07/single-install-script-for-veeam-backup.html I wanted to see if there was a way to use GET API method to share data with PowerBi as a data source. I previously did a post on Veeam Backup & Replication using its config SQL DB as Data Source for PowerBI here:

  Veeam V10 Data Re-use (Business Intelligence) So, this is a Continuation of Blog post PART 2 of Data Re-use blog series, Part two here addressed Security Analysis with Veeam Re-Use API. Business intelligence  What is Business intelligence? As Per Wikipedia: According to Forrester Research, business intelligence is "a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making."

Veeam with Microsoft PowerBI Creating a backup Statistics & analytics Dashboard with PowerBI With some time at home during lock down I decided to play round with PowerBi & learn. The easiest start for me was to plug this into a SQL database, looking around for a Data Set I thought what not easier than use the Veeam Config Database in my lab as its already holding rich data that I could transform into a Dashboard. I also have an deep knowledge into backup and can understand how & why to transform the Data Set. This was my first Time using PowerBi so bear with me .. First, I downloaded and installed PowerBI Desktop to my Veeam Backup Server (seemed easiest as data set was local to the Tool)